Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines
NRS 708.060 - Power of Commission to establish and enforce rates and regulations; procedure; reimbursement of excessive charges.


1. The Commission shall have the power:
(a) To establish and enforce rates of charges and regulations for gathering, transporting, loading and delivering crude oil or petroleum by such common carriers in this state, and for the use of storage facilities necessarily incident to such transportation; and
(b) To prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the government and control of such common carriers in respect to their pipelines and receiving, transferring and loading facilities.
2. The Commission shall exercise such power upon petition by any person showing a substantial interest in the subject.
3. No order establishing or prescribing rates, rules and regulations shall be made except after a hearing and at least 10 days’ and not more than 30 days’ notice to the person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint-stock association, or association owning or controlling and operating or managing the pipeline or pipelines affected.
4. If any rate shall be filed by any pipeline, and a complaint against the same or a petition to reduce the same shall be filed by any shipper, and such complaint is sustained, in whole or in part, all shippers who shall have paid the rates so filed by the pipeline company shall have the right to reparation reimbursement of all excess in transportation charges so paid over and above the proper rate as finally determined on all shipments made after the date of the filing of such complaint.
[4:227:1921; NCL § 4948]

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines

NRS 708.010 - "Commission" defined.

NRS 708.020 - Owner, operator or manager of oil pipeline declared to be common carrier.

NRS 708.025 - Operation as intrastate carrier without certificate of public convenience and necessity prohibited.

NRS 708.035 - Certificate of public convenience and necessity: Hearing; considerations; terms and conditions.

NRS 708.050 - Right to construct and maintain pipeline along, on or under public stream or road: Conditions; compensation for damage to public road.

NRS 708.060 - Power of Commission to establish and enforce rates and regulations; procedure; reimbursement of excessive charges.

NRS 708.070 - Exchange of tonnage of crude petroleum; installation of connections and facilities; regulations of Commission pertaining to marketable oil, temperature, leakage and evaporation.

NRS 708.080 - Publication of tariffs; reports; investigation of books; limitation on disclosure of reports by Commission; hearings and enforcement of orders.

NRS 708.090 - Discrimination between shippers or in charging for services prohibited; ratable transportation when production exceeds capacity of pipeline.

NRS 708.100 - Common purchaser: Duties; discrimination prohibited.

NRS 708.110 - Discrimination in receipt and transportation of crude oil or petroleum prohibited.

NRS 708.120 - Regulations of Commission to prevent waste of oil or dangerous operations.

NRS 708.130 - Applicability of chapter.

NRS 708.140 - Penalties.